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17 Cards in this Set
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What did Griggs vs. Duke Power Company Establish?
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A court case (1971) impacting testing in the workplace -- measures of broad abilities cannot be used to make decisions for hiring and promotion
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What is Adverse Impact?
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occurs when the percentage of minority applicants selected for a particular job is less than 4/5ths of the percentage of non-minority applicants who are selected for the same job
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What is unfairness?
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Occurs when minorities and non-minorities score differently on a predictor test yet perform the same on the criterion (graphically, looks like two parallel lines)
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What is differential validity?
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When a test is more valid for predicting performance for one sub-group than it is for another -- rarely a problem.
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What is a job analysis?
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specific component tasks performed by workers on a particular job (i.e. tools, equipment, education & training needed, wages etc..)
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What is a job evaluation?
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A formal analysis of what a specific job is financially worth to an organization
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What is the critical incident technique?
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this term refers to outlining/defining the specific actions that lead to desirable and undesirable consequences on the job
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What is the standard application, the weighted application blank, and the biographical inventory (BIB)
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Three ways of gather biographical info (1) most common type of application (fill in the blanks) (2) another fill-in-the blanks, but variables are assigned weights that affect the hiring process (3) more detailed biographical information, specifically correlated with desirable/undesirable work beahviors
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What are the pros and cons of BIBS?
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BIBs are good predictors of job success & turnover! But costly and time consuming to develop
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What employee selection method has the WORST criterion related validity?
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Interviews
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What can be done to improve the validity of interviews?
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Structure them, ahve multiple interviewers and train interveiwers to reduce biases
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What are some major interviewer biases?
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first impression, negative information, the contrast effect, interviewer prejudices
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What is the first impression bias?
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The term for the tendency of the interviewer to be swayed by their initial impression of a candidate
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What is negative information bias?
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the tendency for one or two negative pieces of information to negate strenths or accomplishments
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What is the contrast effect?
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the tendency for a interviewer to rate someone more positively if they are interviewed just after an underqualified person (and vice versa)
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What is the Halo effect?
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generalizing from one characteristic about a person in a positive or negative direction
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What techniques are used in the Assessment Center?
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In-box technique and Leaderless group discussion
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